Ted Kravitz: The TRUTH Behind The Red Bull Boycott & Paddock Politics

The Red Bull situation was that the Stafford Camp and Red Bull thought that I was saying

that it was them who had done anything wrong, which maybe I just wasn't clear enough by

saying that it was Michael Massey in the FIA who had not stuck to their rules.

Ted Kravitz!

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The man with probably the most famous notebook in the world.

Welcome to the Race Notebook!

With over 20 years in Formula One to present your detailed insights,

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thoughts and reactions to one of the most complex sports in the world.

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Sat next to the current drivers in Eurofighter Typhoons upside down in the sky.

I don't recommend this, but uh...

Did you come up with the idea of Ted's notebook?

It wasn't my idea.

I don't even buy my own notebooks.

One word caused a team to be very angry.

What does that do to you, the aftermath of that?

Uh...

Ted Kravitz, the man with probably the most famous notebook in the world.

With over 20 years in Formula One, for many weekends of the year, you present your detailed

insights, thoughts and reactions to one of the most complex sports in the world.

But Ted, in your own words, who are you and what do you do?

Hello.

Nice to be here.

How are you?

I'm Mike.

I like the van.

We should probably explain a bit why we're here, because there is a story.

Who am I?

Uh...

I'm a pit lane reporter.

In Formula One.

In Formula One, yes.

Well, I mean, you know, that's my job, so I've written a book about it.

F1 Insider, notes from the pit lane, and yeah, we are here because when I couldn't be a pit

reporter in the pits, this is where I came and did my reporting.

Do you remember the lockdown notebooks?

No.

Ah, okay.

Well, I can understand that COVID was a difficult time for everybody.

Well, I wasn't trying to forget it.

I have to admit, I think trying to survive was compassing everything around me during

lockdown.

Okay.

It was the thing that captivated my addiction.

Well, that's good.

It was easy.

It was easy to miss.

So, when the Australian Grand Prix was cancelled in 2020, then we all came back to the UK having

been in Australia.

Formula One was off, and we at Sky Sports F1 had to pivot quite quickly to how we could

service our audience, who were all stuck at home, obviously, with a new way of working.

And so, I offered, as I talk about, I think in Chapter 18, I offered my producers a kind

of weakly roundup of what was going on, because there was still stuff happening in Formula

One.

Sebastian Vettel was announced that he was leaving Ferrari and joining Aston Martin,

and Coloss Sainz was on the move as well.

And I came here to the only place that we were allowed to do.

Do you remember there was the daily exercise?

You were allowed to do some one hour of daily exercise.

Because of social distancing, I had to be my own cameraman.

So, I had to hold Noley or Pete, I had to hold a camera on the end of a selfie stick

and just be my own cameraman.

And happily, some people watched it and found it interesting, which I'm very grateful for.

And I did it around this park, just off Caledonian Road in Northampton.

And that's why we're here.

And what would your notes be on?

So, I started right over there, and there was a Fiat 500 in Italian colours with an

Italian stripe down the side.

And I thought, great, that is an opportunity to do the Sebastian Vettel story.

So, you're always kind of looking for bits that you can use, bits that are round.

I do that in the pit lane every day.

You use opportunities if you see something happening or there's a big crowd, you'll start

and say, oh, you know, they're here to see Ferrari or they're here if it's a Monza or,

you know, there's only one show in town or McLaren the Quick is, you know, the most popular team

here in Austin or wherever it is.

So, yeah, you always use what's around you.

So, it wouldn't have been about anything really.

Very quickly, some Igor Eye viewers of Road to Success may notice this week that we are

missing one of our normal camera angles that looks across at the guest taking the main

part of the face.

We've still got the side camera angle and this has worked really well for this episode.

We actually managed to somehow delete two main camera angles.

They just went missing from the episode.

But Toby has done a fantastic job, my lead editor, of recovering the footage of a deleted SD card.

We've gone above and beyond this week.

I hope you still enjoy this episode.

I just wanted to clear up why that one camera angle is missing.

As much as you say, I'm just a pit lane reporter, there is so many.

If you write that in the centre of a page or a notebook, so many things that come off

that to make you good at doing what you do.

And many people in the world have to be told what to do as part of their jobs.

And then a set percentage of people are very creative.

And like you have to come up with so much stuff in real time on the go of like you

always been that way.

Like even at school, were you taking notes where you were creative?

Have you always been inside?

What's very kind of you say?

I mean, I think that school, I was always interested in numbers, even though I wasn't

particularly good at maths.

I think I talk about this in chapter two, where I found sort of comfort in numbers.

And I like to pre-internet.

This is a long time ago.

The internet didn't exist.

Because you came into F1 in 1996.

Yes, but this was growing up when I was in sort of 1990, something like that.

So when I was growing up, and I just thought, you know, I like to look at the

qualifying results and then I would build my own picture from the numbers and the

gaps and what had happened.

And that was the way that I really got into it.

So while I wasn't in terms of, you know, being sort of looking to be told if

relating to your question, what to do, that was what got me into it was some of

the process and the discipline, the numbers and everything.

So that's what I found interesting.

And I still do it to this day.

So I'll look at the numbers of a lap time or of a, there was a race.

I can't remember where I think it was in.

It was in Baku, which is quite a long circuit.

And everybody was winning almost one second, the whole field.

I think it was a practice session.

The quickest time was a one 29.1 and the slowest time was a one 30.1.

And I just looked at it and it made sense to me.

And I quite like that, that symmetry of those numbers.

So that's where that comes from knowledge over a long period of time.

Because the more times that you witness something, the more times you see something,

the more times it builds on our memory and we're able to make these little differences

and see things a lot easier than somebody else that's done it for the first time.

So if I take it back to your first memory of a race, what would that be?

What was your first significant memory of Formula One?

I mean, in the flesh, it was a, do you mean in the flesh or watching on TV?

Anything significant to you?

I think it's, I mean, I used to watch, you know, Grand Prix through the through the 1980s,

but in the flesh, I guess it was about 91-92 when we all, when I went down in the London Evening Standard,

which I think still exists as a free newspaper, but you had to buy it back then.

There was a voucher in the paper for a brand-touch race day with Lotus Formula One

and Johnny Herbert and Mika Hackland would be there.

And so I went down on the train and got to the track and I saw the transporters and they were

always gleaming and shiny and clean and these two, this one Lotus Ford got wheeled out the back

and I was like, whoa, what is this?

And Mika Hackland was hanging around, no one was bothering him because nobody really knew who he

was and Johnny Herbert was the star attraction. And I got, I went up to Mika Hackland and I was

like, you know, for an autograph and he just handed me this autograph card, which he hadn't signed.

He was just sitting on this box of tools, toolbox handing out autographs, unsigned

autograph cards. And I was like, oh, thank you very much. And then Johnny Herbert did a couple

laps in the Lotus Ford and the sound of that really, really hooked me.

So that was the first time that I realized this is really cool.

This was really cool. And then watching, I guess sort of that 1992 season with Nigel Mansell

doing a really great job for Williams Renault and then there was the Monaco Grand Prix where

he made a pit stop, came out behind it and Senna and Senna was always my idol.

And then I was jumping up and down on my sofa in the living room and I was, I thought, okay,

it's funny how game this formula won. This can really make people react this way,

you know, because it's making me react this way. It's very exciting. And so, yeah, by that time

I was well and truly hooked. But that precise moment, if I could put that Ted at that time

in the van opposite me now. And I told him that that entry, that passion, that spark,

could lead to be sat next to the current drivers in URFI to Typhoons upside down in the sky and

touring markets with the drivers understanding about their culture and local food and everything

else that's come from, as you call it, a pit lane reporter. What would that Ted say?

I'd probably say to myself, didn't you want to go into radio, which is what I was thinking of

at the time? Or didn't you want to go into journalism? How have you ended up here then?

Because that was what I thought I'd do. So even at a young age, I liked the immediacy,

the intimacy of radio, which is why I liked doing podcasts like this with good microphones.

And I was blessed with an okay voice. And I just liked the way radio connected you

with your listeners. And you didn't have to worry about shaving in the morning. You didn't have

to worry about ironing your shirts or what you wore. Because under us, no, I know. But

I can just claim it's a linen shirt. And that's the way it is. But I have just not ironed it.

But linen shirts do go like this. And I loved radio. I loved it. Between the ages of

nine and 14, I was just sort of addicted to radio, talk radio, music radio,

and thought this is what I want to do. And so, yeah, the young me would say, what about that job?

I thought you were going to try and get in radio. What are you doing in this?

So what do you even consider it? I know radio is so different to what you do now,

but it's also live. Yes, because in the race, it is, I am just out of vision. And I am

a box that comes up with three. Well, yeah, I mean, we don't, you know, I'm not in. I'm just

doing a lot of the time and I'm doing my reports. I'm looking elsewhere and I'm doing this and I'm

waving my hands about and people can't see it because it's in the middle of the race and you're

watching the main race feed. So it is a little bit, it's still like radio, which pleases me.

Sorry, you were going to ask a question. Has everything from your earliest days of starting

out there always been live? Because one of the first guests I actually ever recorded with was

Jake Humphrey. Oh, right. And Jake would talk about the enormous difference in pressure that he

experienced between kind of studio based work and live work and like how different the two were.

But have you only, was your first kind of knowledge, have you only really known live from

the beginning? Yes, I mean, we predominantly, yes, I mean, we mix it up. Obviously, I do lots of

recorded stuff and we do finally crafted features and we've done plenty of recorded programs,

review season review programs or Christmas programs or whatever stuff has been has been

recorded. But then there's a discipline and immediacy and actually a connection that you

make with your audience when you're live that I kind of, I kind of like. And I don't know whether

Jake said, but you do become a bit addicted to the sort of thrill of live, of live TV and Jake

was very good, good with that and had come from lots of recorded programs, both on kids TV and

then in football at BBC Sport. And then he would get nervous, we all get nervous, you get more

nervous when you're doing live TV. I think the moment you stop being nervous, you should probably

stop doing it because you can you feel like the pressure inside you like a pressure cooker

sometimes and there's so much going on around you. Or is that the moment that you tend to excel

in like for our sake? Yeah, I've seen some of the busiest times that you do the notebook is

in moments like when there's a team photo or someone's just one, the constructors championship

like Clarence Week. And like, is that the times where you almost feel like you excel the most

is when there's the most going on? Yeah, that's the time when you have to get it right and remember

to hit all of your all of your talking points. So that's that's the pressure in that in that

you you need to know what to start with. And you need to have thought about where you're going to

end, because that is the throwback to can't just finish what you're saying and saying Simon back

to you, although we do do that sometimes. It's best to kind of have a thought, have an arc around

to the end, which is that, you know, I don't know, Alex Halpern's brakes are on fire or something,

and you're going to have to you're going to have to make it that that that this is not a thought

that this is not the way that Williams wanted the weekend to start or something like that.

And then you need to have something to say in the middle, not outstay a welcome,

make keep it short, and, and get all the points across, you don't want the camera to go off and

think, Oh, I forgot to say that. And that's the pressure in in, I wouldn't say it's pressure

quicker, but that's the pressure in trying to get everything in. And when you do when you get

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I wish I didn't say that right because you're live. The difference between what we're doing now

with the cameras and what you have to do and I appreciate live in the bit lane is if I said

something that was slightly off-piece to you we could edit it out in in in realative sense like

just chop that bit and we carry on with the video. No viewer other than me, you or Toby is the wiser

but on TV if you step across that line live there's no going back really is there. You tend not to

get near the line actually. I mean you'd be surprised that you tend to go to

to you know 85-90% and then you you tend never to go near the line for that for that reason really

and that's where I think that's where I think podcasts are good in that people feel a bit

more relaxed. Colour Science was talking recently about the you know the the ability of podcasts

to be able to to have the time to explore more you know more more subjects in depth and and

that's a nice thing to do and but but you will be able to tell when you watch us that if we're doing

something you know we'll make a broad reference to something that may or may not be controversial

and then we won't really go Pete first into it and the moment people here I don't know what the

controversy let's say there's a controversy over a front wing flexibility thing and all my favourite

chapter in your book chapter 20. Oh is that Abbey W21 yeah right well that was happening I mean at

the time so we didn't know you know at the time wow how contentious yeah of course not controversial

in the moment because everything's live everything's live and so we were trying to figure it out at

the time but no it's it's you you'll allude to the to the to the controversy but bear in mind

that we've also got people in areas you know saying you know I mean they don't need to say it

because we know we've discussed where the line is and we won't really go near it. You see one of my

late father's favourite sayings that he had that will never leave me and I genuinely use it pretty

much every day in my businesses in my life is Ben you can only keep some of the people happy

some of the time you can't keep all of the people happy all of the time do you have to kind of have

a degree of that with what you're doing because you're dealing with so many emotions so many teams

so many people but do you kind of have to have an acceptance in journalism and doing what you're

doing that sometimes some of them will be happy and sometimes some of them won't at remarks I suppose

so I mean your father was a wise man but I would I would say that I try to keep most of the people

happy all of the time and it's set out to upset anyone or yeah I mean everybody's incitled to

their own opinions and that's fine but I'd like those to be based on on the facts of what's of

what's actually happening and if someone wants to have an opinion based on something that they

don't really have any basis for then absolutely fine there's natural but but then I'm just at

least happy that I've stuck to what I know is true but do you have to have skin almost like a

rhinoceros to deal with maybe formula one drivers and the pressure they can put back on you at times

is it harder to deal with comments from like the drivers in the paddock than it is the general

audience the drivers all just come at it from from their point of view and I think about that and

understand that all the time um the team bosses as well you know it's they're all competitive

super competitive people and they're coming at it from their point of view so they want to put

their their case across and sometimes the best thing for a reporter to do is to think in those

terms in that mind and then put that as your first question because that will often elicit the best

response so uh I don't know what would it be um I land a Norris winning Monaco um I mean that

wasn't any really some contentious element to that but he was a bit sort of fed up with doing media

he just done the photo he didn't really want to do an interview and I and I could see that and I

just came up to him and I just thought you know what must it be to him he's just won the Monaco

Grand Prix he's a bit tired he's just done the photo with the team he doesn't really want to

do an interview he's already done him here's me with uh with the things so I put myself in his

head and I just thought what would he react well to um uh or Oscar Piastri coming off uh crashing

in Baku you know I thought he doesn't really want to answer questions about why did you crash why

did you crash in qualifying why did you crash in the race you know was that um a consequence of

the jumpstart so I put myself in his head and with Lando I said um Monaco you did it and a little

smile went on his lips and he was like yeah did it did it and then I knew I was I was all right and

I could ask you know about the strategy or whatever the boring question was next or whatever um and

with Oscar it was it was um I was going to do I had this idea last weekend after the Baku Nightmare

to do you know when you ring up some people and they say can I just take you through um

some security questions so uh what's your uh what's your middle name yeah uh what was the

name of your first pet what's your mother's name what's your maiden name exactly um not hard for me

because Kravitz is my mother's maiden name I use I use her name um and um anyone wants to try and

get through my security questions but I thought I had this idea uh to Oscar Piastri it was like

okay let's find out if we're talking to the real Oscar Piastri here so let's ask him the security

questions and once we've established to see where I'm going with this maybe not maybe this is a

terrible idea which is why I didn't use it in the end it's like okay I was going to start oh sorry

Mr. Piastri can I just take you through some security questions can I have your uh mother's maiden

name okay good okay the name of your first pet uh you know Fluffles okay great okay now I'm dealing

with the real you know I'm satisfied I'm dealing with a real Oscar Piastri who was driving that car

last week and I was going to see what he what he thought and then I thought to to go back to what

you're saying I just maybe I'll put myself in his head and maybe he might think oh yes all very clever

Kravitz but but you know to you that's a bit of a stiffness bit rude it was me driving and I just

made a mistake all right so so I decided not to do that so that's the way you try and mitigate any

kind of sensitivities by seeing it from their point of view do you sometimes think if I don't ask

them now if I leave them this time that'll make the next 20 times I ask them better how do you mean

in terms of what difficult if one potential moment right so let's just take max very angry max yeah

just a very angry max right and you think I could either make him angry up like or speak to him or

he doesn't want to do any me or right I can just back off not ask the question he was expecting me

to ask and get a slightly tamer max for the next 20 times I have it because you kind of had that

little bit of extra respect right well I always have there's no extra respect I always have

respect for everybody I not you and the other side but well it's just the job of of if I'm the

first person to get him and he's done something that my viewers would want to know some more

details about or an explanation for then you've got to go with that first you can find a different

way of asking it what was the one there was one where he was told to give a place back and then

he was angry about it there's a few of those right but then I wanted to go I would have

probably started with with you know why did why do you think your team felt that you what you

needed to give the place back was there a kind of gray area of the rules where you thought you were

okay because someone had clunked into you and then you clunked some or whatever whatever it was

you know is that something that that started all this and also with that so I'd probably start

from there and with you know the McLaren can you swap back and swap back that all started from a

slow pit stop and I'd quite so I might start with okay what was the what was the first point that

this happened and ease into it that way because then also you're looking at from their point of

view you know things that weird things that happen in formula one they always have a start point which

actually isn't that weird so whether it's having to give a place back and then there's some consequences

or whether there's slow pit stop and then you end up swapping the cars around or whether there's a

yellow flag and you go too fast over the yellow flag and get a 10-place grid penalty there's always

a little kernel first of all that I think is worth exploring and then if you do that logically

and always with respect then then you tend to get to the same place rather than just saying

why'd you do that there's drivers on the grid now that are I'd say more challenging than others to

speak to an interview and there's definitely been char drivers in the past that would have been

more challenging than others to speak to I'm thinking maybe Kimmy Reichenan over your time because

we don't always appreciate the full amount of time that people do things for unlike Fernando

Alonso has been doing it for a hundred years but we don't appreciate that full amount of time you've

been an F1 over 20 years now who who were the most difficult drivers and teams to kind of work with

over that period I mean again it comes back to just understanding who they are and and what they

react to so Michael Schumacher um what chapter is it I do Michael Michael Schumacher is in

chapter here we go uh eight um of F1 Insider where I talk about you know the the challenges of

of interviewing Michael Schumacher and he always realized that an interview with everyone from the

media wasn't going to make him or his car go quicker and so he had to get something out of it

and if you look at it that way all these drivers are very nice and giving us their time

because it's not something talking doing a two-minute interview with with any reporter

isn't going to get them a more lap time better lap time so it's it's you know they're doing it

because it's good for their teams with sponsors and everything uh and it makes them connect with

their public that's really why they're doing it we're just a sort of vessel to be used

from them to to put their point across to to everybody watching and and so Kimmy Michael

always demanded excellence from his from his questions or questioners uh and if you had thought

of a good well thought out question which engaged him and made him think and might give him some

insight into some competitors or some way that he could further it on track and that was always good

for Michael um Kimmy Reichenan people misunderstood because I think half the time people were trying

to get a one-word answer out of Kimmy Reichenan just to make it like a funny Kimmy Reichenan answer

um and that's not I never really like to play that game because I mean sometimes we had a feature

I can't remember what it what year it was which was um you know best answers with Kimmy Reichenan or

something and then we had this you know do do do do do interview gold with Kimmy Reichenan

it's like Kimmy do you think you can win this weekend yes do do do do do you know TV Gold with

Kimmy Reichenan so if you can ask a close question like that then you know Kimmy's going to give you

uh one one answer so you could go looking for that but if you went Kimmy was actually quite a

talkative guy it's what people don't realize and sometimes he'd give such long answers I think oh

how am I going to edit this you know it's not going to it's not going to fit in the in the

future I want this answer for um but you had to think about it and you had to get him engaged

and sometimes he'd see he'd more often than not be wearing sunglasses when you spoke to him

and sometimes he'd uh if he didn't think much of your question he'd kind of watch back with

some videos you'll see goes like that sort of puts his nose in the air and puts his chin up

and then goes I don't think so um but sometimes if he was engaged in your question

he'd just sort of stare at you behind those dark glasses and then sometimes he'd sort of

cock his head to the left and then he'd also answer but um you knew that then you got a good boar

and no actually that's wrong the boars were always I don't think much of your question

was uh was a kind of you know we still get some boars now again don't we yeah I think he was such

a kind of iceman creature that that no one is ever gonna and the videos go so viral to this day

for new fans but no one is ever gonna forget what he was like but what he was like at the core of

his brain is what a lot of Formula One drivers teams team principals and anyone within the

garages alike which is they are quite self-competitive at the end of the day every weekend a bit like

Oscar having a poor weekend he's competing with himself the next weekend you guys despite the

fact that you're so many of you are so humble but come and sit opposite me and talk but you've

done so many cool things and so many cool experiences and got to a really really cool position with

doing a piece of work that a lot of others would want to do are you ever self-critical after a race

like would you have come down on the plane on the plane on the way back do you think

that was good that was that was me at my best this weekend or do I was a bit I wish I'd done it that

way yeah quite so critical you quite level no every 10 minutes I'm so constantly so critical

that's the only way that's the only way you learn you have to watch back your pieces to see oh I

would have done that differently and done that differently oh maybe I should have said that there

because that's another thing I talk about in the last chapter actually when I say that very few

sports demand have such high demands of their participants than Formula One you expect to be

teams the media the fans expect drivers to be perfect every session every lap of every day of

every race and none of us really hit those perfection marks in our day-to-day present

accepted none of us hit perfection every day but we try to and and but when Formula One drivers

don't hit perfection it gets noticed by everybody all their teams are micro-analyzing all of their

laps and and the fans will see oh why did you know why was um Yuki Sonoda there or that far behind

Max or you know whatever um why was Carlos in front of Alex why was Ollie Berman in front of

Esteban or why haven't you Esteban rock on this weekend whatever it is it gets noticed and if you

don't notice your own performance then then you're not doing it right and you'll never improve and

you'll never have an idea the next time you do it as well so I've had so many ideas for the next

time I'll do something by watching something back and thinking ah I just didn't do that and if I'd

done that then that would have been better or I see you're holding a notebook there sometimes there'll

be uh something I forgot to do on a saturday that I can revisit on a sunday notebook which is useful

but you have to watch saturday back and then cross compare it to your notes and say

I forgot to do that so this is one of the first times it is the first time I've ever brought a

notebook into the back of this van I've even tried to write with the expense of a five pound pen from

wh smith's away because I didn't have one Ben's notebook on the front of it the reason I bought

this is I wanted it to trigger so many questions about one of the things that I love about what you

do I'm going to start with my first one which is do you remember your first notebook like did you

because next to when you see Ted Ted's notebook even if you ask chap gbt to write something it says

producer then creative did you come up with the idea of Ted's notebook does it say producer Ted

crevets it says next to notebook producer of Ted of notebook who me yes I thank heaven for that um

yes I mean it's the only thing that I have sort of you know complete control over well not complete

but um but nearly did you have that concept to do that do you think you know what this would be

really good to do that no because in uh chapter it's one of the penultimate ones which is called

Ted's notebook in here where I give the the all the details on um here we go it is chapter

18 Ted's notebook I give you the full uh details of what it was so it wasn't my idea it wasn't the

my idea for the format that it's in um uh and it wasn't my idea for the name and I don't even

buy my own notebooks so which one shall we go for first it started as a written column on the ITV

sport website from my then editor Simon Strang who said look there must be things that you write

in here that you don't get to put on TV why don't we not waste them you put them into a little

written column for the ITV website so I used to do that 500 words or so um and then I carried that on

from the BBC when I moved to the BBC but then the deputy editor Andrew Benson who's still on BBC

Radio 5's coverage a very good journalist said um we like that but um well how about doing a video

blog because it was getting harder and harder with the more races to actually get my copy into

him on time and he wanted it quite timely after the race and I was often at a back-to-back race

or whatever and he said look why don't you just why don't you just put it into a video blog and

we'll just record it after the race you can do it to camera I said okay fine and he said but

well I can't call it Ted's notebook so we'll call it um from the pit lane with Ted Kravitz

okay fine whatever so that was when it was a video blog so that was one of the first ones

I think was in Monza in 2009 2010 it was probably the first video one um and then uh developed

developed kept going keep going going and then when I joined Sky Sports F1 in 2012 um Martin

Turner who was the executive producer said I like your paddock ramble uh I'm gonna turn it into a

proper TV program so two parts 12 minutes each 24 minutes running time uh but I can't call it

from the pit lane with Ted Kravitz it's too long it barely won't even fit on a TV screen have you

got any other names um and uh I said oh how about um how about Ted's notebook he said oh Ted's

notebook great idea you know good name where'd you get that from not knowing that it was the

name of the original written column from 90 from 2001 till 2008 um so yeah so that's where

that's where it came from um but it's I mean it's yeah when you start making the notes in

the notebook over a weekend so everything that goes into there we only see it from the point

of the video beginning to the end um and your thoughts there but when does that notebook

actually come together uh Thursday well on the flight out I'll do some I'll make some notes of

things that I I want to start this by putting all the teams down and giving a gap for each

no no it'll just be random stuff um and then on a Thursday when all the driver interviews start

uh I'll just put you know hulk water it all goes in reverse order in the pit lane so Sal was always

first then it's Williams this is the order reversed from the constructors from the previous year

then Williams guys are next and then uh Racing Bulls and then Haas and then Alpine

then Aston Martin and then Mercedes and then Red Bull and then Ferrari and then McLaren

last in the day so you'll fill up the notebook with all of these things that the drivers had

said not only to you but also to other reporters which is gold because they're not on our cameras

a lot of the time we're not putting that out but it's still good information that people

might be interested in hopefully they'll be interested in and if I'm interested in that's

that's the point of how I sort of think about they people might be interested in and then um gets to

practice then I'll be thinking writing some ideas about bits that they want me to do before practice

some ideas some thoughts uh I'll read all the team previews and if there's a little line in there

about uh there was a line from Singapore recently where I think Carlos called it uh it's all about

being uncomfortable with the uncut being comfortable with the uncomfortable and I wrote that down on

my notebook I stole it and I used it at the green light on Sunday afternoon evening before the race

so I'll go back through my notebook and say uh that was a good line I'm going to reuse and

recycle like repurposing these lines can I repurpose that line for a minute so I think it's

a perfect entry into a note that I've got that I want to ask you about because being comfortable

with the uncomfortable I'd love to ask you something that must have been uncomfortable

which is from my favourite chapter of your book from everything that everybody has seen

one word and I don't want to go into the details to be fair because you must be like a driver getting

fed up after a race fed up with it but one word caused a team to be very angry with yourself

and sky sports and ultimately from the media's perspective began boycotting even doing interviews

with sky sports etc can I get into the actual emotion can I get into the actual emotion behind

you because what we see from you on camera is excitement with things that happen in the pit

lane sometimes shock from things that happen in the pit lane we don't see the other side

of the person and the thing that they have to deal with when the camera goes off so that

what does a situation like that when it happens and it kind of blows up one in one in 20 years

situation which if you go back to my dad's statement you can't keep everybody happy all

of the time but like what does that do to you the aftermath of that

well you'll have to read F1 Insider to find out what happened with all of that

what doesn't do that much to me I mean I work for sky sports I

they were very supportive I don't think what I said was a particularly rogue view at the time

I think it was clipped up out of context on social media but that happens that's something

that you have to deal with and that can create the snowball going down a hill that's why I ask it

because the actual view of me as a fan do you think obscured from the actual gravity of the

situation inside where you were no I think the the gravity wasn't particularly grave and I think

it was snowballed out of all proportion so it was just differences of opinion in terms of

of what they thought I was talking about versus what I was actually talking about do you think

if that was said at any weekend in the futures who years ahead referring back to a situation it

would have been a completely different outcome to what happened I think this is what the moment

I think it was just a miscommunication really I mean if you're asking specifically I think I was

saying that you know that that Lewis Hamilton should have won the if the rules of the FIA as

they were understood should have been applied then Lewis Hamilton should have won the Abu Dhabi 2021

Grand Prix which is not a rogue view and I was actually fascinated and learned about the previous

race director from Michael Massey when I was reading chapter 20 and it's Charlie Whiteing

yeah which actually put quite an interesting perspective on all that familiar I didn't

actually know prior to reading that about Charlie White yeah that was something that obviously that

situation as an F1 fan nearly every race if I we used to have these F1 Sundays we used to call it

Brown Food F1 Sunday it was a great chat with the lads where we were on a Sunday sit on the sofa

and we were only allowed turkey dinosaurs and chicken nuggets and anything that went in the

oven and we'd sit and watch the F1 but even in all the races after that we always spoke about that

infamous race it's actually really interesting that piece on Charlie Whiteing who's the previous

race yes before Michael Massey yes that is the first time I've had context added to a situation

that's changed my view on it okay for a long time yeah so Charlie Whiteing was a legend and

I'd encourage you to if anyone is same as you doesn't isn't familiar with Charlie Whiteing

go and go and have a look online and look at some videos that he used to do he's a very gentle man

but strong strong words softly spoken had the respect of everybody and

I mean you know we weren't sadly passed away a couple of years three years before

Abu Dhabi 21 I think he passed away in 2018 and yeah he would I mean I don't know what

he would have done he would have presumably followed the rule which was that after the

lapped cars are released to go around to join the end of the back of the pack then rule 48.12

says that the race will restart the following lap which was the rule that was unexpectedly not

followed by Michael Massey but I think we all know the the story it's in there the Abu Dhabi

is treated in there but I mean going back to your original question I think that the the the the

Red Bull situation was that the staff and camp and Red Bull thought that I was saying that it was

them who had done anything wrong which maybe I just wasn't clear enough by saying that it was

Michael Massey in the FIA who had not unusually not stuck to their rules and had

prevented Lewis being an eight-time world champion which had they stuck to their rules as

understood by everybody then Lewis Hamilton would have won the championship but they didn't

it's nothing to do with Red Bull so I think that was the element of the misunderstanding I

should have been more specific and said that it was the FIA Michael Massey but we all made the

mistakes and we all word things in ways that make sense to us but sometimes when they're

actually taking in my others it can be completely different I mean listen it's just the way these

things you know these things are clipped up I'm sure if they'd seen you know the thing it wasn't

actually that controversial thing hopefully understand where you're coming from with that

and it's great context but like what I want to understand is the bit that you don't see behind

the lens that actually helps us gain some context of how you deal with that because it's all part

of what you do is having to deal with that kind of stuff like after that's happened you think do

you think mentally right he's a bit angry at me at the minute he doesn't understand what happened

or they're a bit angry me do you go into I have to solve this problem mode like I should speak to

them should I wait a little bit of time let the dust blow over do you actively think about almost

the recovery of it a little bit as soon as something like that happens or do you just

let the course of time play out well it's quite bemused about the whole thing um uh so um no I

mean we had a chat we had a we had a discussions with with with red bull and I spoke to max about

it and we came to a amicable conclusion where I completely understood his point of view that

wasn't actually about what I said but about the social media pylons that happen I mean pile on

not a electricity pile on um that happened to to him and his friends and his family and I said

look I completely get that you know happens to the same to to to to everybody and he was saying

you know why do you have to go there and I said I wasn't I was just riffing on a on a on a block

idea for Brad Pitt's f1 movie um and so you know we had it out and we had a discussion and

we had it out if I say that now you're going to clip this out and people are going to say

oh Ted and Max had it out we had a friendly discussion about something and uh we understood

our opinions and then we've been I spoke to him last weekend I interviewed him last weekend so

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really hope to bring you some more inspirational guests soon. As someone that loves everything

that happens around Formula One and how individual moments have such a huge consequence sometimes

in Formula One just like that itself do you believe with your generalized view of everything

Formula One that Abu Dhabi 2021 was better or worse for Formula One in the position it's in now?

Was it better or worse for Formula One? Gosh well I take you back to the end of the Abu Dhabi

chapter and I would recommend that you all get this to actually read what I'd properly say and I

will put a link in the description and the bio to be able to go there but and I genuinely do mean

because I rarely do say this guys I genuinely do mean in chapter 20 and I don't read a lot of books

right there is an audio where I can read where I read it to you but I I flowed through chapter 20

so last night sat doing my research like I've never done before good so but because it because it

added so much that I wasn't aware of so the story in my head that makes me very happy thank you very

much so I put here F1 has never been more popular so it's difficult to judge to what extent the

events of that night in Abu Dhabi damaged the image and integrity of the sport

so let's think about that for a bit everyone has never been more popular has it no so

but people weren't happy with what the events of Abu Dhabi did to the integrity of the rules

and the way they were applied understandably but they're now implied in a better way I don't know

I suppose yeah oh would there still be a lot more no I mean we have wibbly wobbly if Abu Dhabi

hadn't have happened we had she was still in charge of that team I don't know we've had two

race directors since since then I think it's a bit a bit of a more conservative race direction

you look at how many red flags are thrown these days you know for leaves on track or something

but and then I end it where I say just like the other great stories that make up F1's fascinating

history though we shouldn't be afraid to talk about it and I think that's really what it comes

down to whether it's going back to your original question whether it's just you know teams wanting

to influence uh media people reporters journalists and that's what it's about it's about influence

trying to put their point across trying to defer any criticism minimize any negative

negativity around them which is all completely natural and understanding it's it's it's you

it's putting pressure on people they can do that that's just part of the game you have to

take that as understand it as part of the game but the moment we stop talking about things

and communicating and understanding people's point of views and just talking person to person

you know in a mature way the moment we stop doing that then we're really in trouble

and so that's what you always end up doing in any case in Formula One when someone's not happy

with what you said and and they'll always be and actually you'll always get to a better understanding

of that person or that team by having a subsequent discussion because you'll understand where they're

coming from when you messaged a family member loved one or maybe spoke to them in person and said

uh by the way I'm just about to get in a urethite a typhoon

right yes and go upside down in the sky in the air with one of the drivers that I ran on down the

pitch lane with occasionally for a piece to camera what's their reaction no well this was I was

actually on holiday in Suffolk at the time I think it was afterm and we've been doing going up to it

so there'd been some training and and and medical things so they all knew about that so but I fly

little planes for a hobby anyway um so they chose you were a great candidate yeah well they chose

me the producers they could have had anyone Simon Lazenby could have done it or Anthony or Karun

or um and you're only at first or Bernie or you know or Natalie or Rachel could have done it you

know there's no anyone could have done it um you there is another pilot I wasn't flying the plane

myself I was a group captain Billy Cooper who's the Conningsby station commander who very kindly

took me for a ride um and um and George Russell so they were doing it as as it was a part of

with the RAF and the Mercedes team to try and get more people into science technology engineering

and math STEM subjects and um it was a thing where they were going to take up George Russell and then

because he was going with um uh Lieutenant Commander Matt Bright Brighty who does the

urethite display uh or did it at the time uh he had to have a wingman who was my who was a

captain group captain bad Billy Cooper um and so then I went in the back but uh it was yeah it was

great because I had to fit in I mean probably would have been better for Anthony Davidson to do it

or Karun because they're racing drivers and they're racing driver size so I had to get the G

trousers on which actually stops you from passing out um and um I used to play rugby so I got sort

of rugby players thighs and and trying to get these G trousers on was actually the hardest thing of

of the whole sortie once I got these G trousers on and the helmet which fitted and then everything

was good from there so yeah that makes you think that you almost could forget the cameras are even

rolling because you just know I can't believe what is going on now do you ever step out of that

because there's an interesting shot in here in the pictures section um whereby I'll either put it on

that one overload where you can see that I'm on the helmet there is a tinted visor and then there

is a clear visor so there's the tinted visor and there's the clear visor so all throughout

it was a bright sunny day and that doesn't look a bit cloudy getting lifting off from uh taking

off from connings be there um so that the cameras could see that it was me and George obviously if

we go up there and we got the tinted visor down it's better for the sun glare but it could be

anyone yeah it could be Tom Cruise behind that you know that's why if you watch Top Gun he's always

got the visor up and then some of the enemies in the Sukkos or whatever the Migs have got their

visors down because you don't need to see the baddies eyes but you do need to see Tom Cruise's

eyes so you had to think about things that you'll be watching Top Gear in a completely different

light now Top Gun in a completely different light now um so you always have to think

and that's why when I'm doing any of these any of these stunts not I'm saying not that it was a

stunt I'm just saying these these things with drivers primary consideration is that you're

making a TV feature you're not up there to have a fun jolly around in a in a Eurofighter you're

there to to to make a TV feature to make a connection with George Russell to understand how

the G forces in a fighter plane feel so you can get something to like the the lateral G forces

a racing driver will then the up and down the vertical G forces that you're feeling that a

racing driver doesn't feel and then relating George back to that um George is quite tall

six foot one so he felt a bit of the blood coming out of his head which Alex Alban had as well on

a fighter jet he did but in the US um but then I'm a bit more stocky and so I didn't feel that at

all and then you're tensing yourself the G trousers are expanding forcing all the blood

back into your stomach and then back up to your head so so you're always thinking about the end

result which is the TV feature so we went supersonic that day I don't really even remember it but

you know but it was we're over the North Sea um and you think well I would have liked quite like

to enjoy that but but I was busy kind of making the bits that I knew I'd need for the TV feature

why I'm trying to get a little bit of that is you're so calm and logical I can see the way

that you think and professional is a great word to describe you that I'm trying to look for those

moments inside one of the most complex exciting and accelerating sports that even if I was interviewing

the Ted of 30 years ago sat opposite would make him go oh my god did I really fucking do that let's

no that wasn't me there's no way that that was me like do you get that come over you or do you

are you just kind of like this straight cut everything super professional you're letting

me feel guilty for not for not uh for not doing that but do you think that's why you do such a

job at one day uh no because I I mean I try to if you don't have that if you were just to go

through I think formula one and and say oh there's a car there's another car he want to race you

know you want a championship well done um then it'd be pretty boring for your viewer and so I try to

allow myself to get excited about the right time but like Murray Walker and chapters you know

two three four are kind of it's almost like a uh uh it's experiences with Murray Walker

and Martin Brundle in the commentary box so chapter three Murray and Martin show

chapter four is about her at 97 about Jack Vilna with Murray Walker again chapter five is Murray's

last season some of the chapters are a bit of a kind of you know memory memento of working with Murray

if you were he had gears he would go to in commentary David Croft has gears as well so if

you were to deliver everything at that sixth gear which was oh wow I don't believe what I'm saying

like frog it would be first 30 seconds um no that's when an overtake is and through goes Hamilton

you know if you were to do the whole race in fifth or sixth gear it would be exhausting for the viewer

so you can't do that the the trick is choosing or reminding or identifying the right time to give

that boyish or girlish uh that's a word uh childish excitement and so oh wow I can't believe I'm doing

this um you give that at the right time and it has much more impact than if you're just

core look tires oh wow look a car look how quickly he's going then people just won't live with you

through through that so it's yeah it's picking the moments right you know in a in a in a good way

every time I've um had someone from the world of f1 sit opposite me in the van and we've spoken

about the characters that are on the grid and around the grid for for me I always ask about

Martin Brundle and David Croft because the way you guys speak about Murray is how my generation view

Crofton and Marty Martin sat in the box yeah in that commentary because they are our Murray walk

you know the way that Crofton can speak so fast and stop and then Martin comes in it's like this

perfect duo of speaking that are knowing exactly who the other person is constantly

but why what made Murray so special to you guys um I firstly his voice sounded like an engine so

an incredible sort of god given voice that could actually go up there and it was exciting and it

was full of passion and and tone and he could come up um and then it was uh having the right

phrase at the right at the right moment this is almost unbelievable it was the the the way he would

slow it down sometimes and Crofty's very good at this as well and they said this is the big one

and not try and again bombard you with words and make it just exhausting because if you're sitting

at home on a sofa and you're just watching you know you want to be sort of taken on a little bit

of a journey don't you and Crofty and Martin do that and Murray was great at that um he was a

lovely man as well just to be around didn't tend to have a crossword about anybody and then when

somebody did do something it would disappoint him he was like oh well I don't believe you know he did

that it's like everyone was like oh well Murray you know so who would have thought

so there was an innocence to him as well which was which was very appealing do you think doing the

live commentary is one of the hardest jobs to do in formula one in terms of the present inside of

other than Brundle's gridwalk yeah I mean being a presenter I find quite difficult and I have

nothing but respect for Natalie Pinkham Simon Lazenby Rachel Brooks when when she presents

Georgie Thompson Georgie Angel who is one of the best presenters that I've worked with Steve

Ryder before in ITV in the ITV Jake Humphrey as well what they do is to remember all of their

lines and their short-term memory has to be absolutely brilliant and then the moment they

give that line and we go to a feature they can like that can go it's like a drag and drop of that

file into the trash because then they won't need to use that line anymore but it needs to be perfect

they need to remember it and say it perfectly and then get out commentators can't don't have to do

that commentators can explain what they mean they're not having to address the camera at the same time

I'm not having to do that I can write something down the camera is not on me I can read it out

which I do in the notebook I'd basically just read out what I've written you know it is much

harder being a presenter than a commentator that's not to say that the commentators don't

do a brilliant job so but for me it's harder to be a presenter so what is the hardest part

for you what is the hardest part of doing what you do well when they when they tell me to present

a program like really do I have to so I do this program now called paddock uncut on a Thursday

that we kind of restarted we used to do it and then we took a break from it and then we're back

doing it and it's a it's like a podcast so it's like what you do here but there are cameras and

it's being broadcast live and so last week I said to Anthony and Angie Davison and Jamie Chudwick

I said look don't worry about it you know it's like a pod we're just we're just filming it at the

same time you know it's okay and then Jamie's talk backpack failed halfway through and I was like oh

you know you're right she was like oh yeah I can't hear sorry you don't need to hear

she says well I need to be able to hear the interviews oh yeah you do okay can we just get

a different battery for for Jamie and so we disconnected her battery pack and then this

was all on TV so it's it's hard presenting a program getting it all done and then annoying

why fatigue is hard right and what I want to get into is over the 20 plus years that you've

been doing this yeah as you had a moment that's made you go maybe it's time for rugby maybe it

maybe I'll go to presenting rugby is there anything that's ever nearly removed you from

formula what fatigue is what fatigue in terms in terms of the amount of races the amount of

traveling everything or are you just like calm it's not it's not hard so you've never had a

toughest moment at the best moment it's not a hard I mean well I mean sure but but but it's

not no it's not in terms of the there's too many races or anything I could do six more races

so what is the hardest part of doing what gosh what's the one that makes you build such a simple

question I've never actually thought about it because if not if we don't add context right

context one of my favorite words is context yeah I think it's so powerful yeah of course and it

can change the outcome of anything we don't add context all the people listening and wondering

we'll think oh it's just well easy what Ted does though it's just like that stress that I get of

this and this and this in life is just you know that's just because I do what I do I know I'm

sure there is but I just hadn't thought about it really um I mean the best bit is when can I do

can I do the best bit first yeah um the best bit is when as a team uh of broadcast professionals

we hit on a story or there's something big happens and we all just step up and go for that story and

we get the I'm in the pits I get the interviews we need um the the analysts are humming you know

Anthony they're giving their their best reactions Anthony's going through everything on the skypad

our crew is going through everything on the sky pad hitting all of the marks explaining to the

viewers you know it feels like you're in a v12 engine and it's just running at a 12,000 rpm

and it's like the engine you can feel it the whole production lifts and you come off air and you're

like oh you know we got everything out there nobody went home or nobody um wanted for any

information we got it all out there things will come out in the next three or four days

we covered them all at the time that's so satisfying working as a team and I imagine it

must be as a driver when you win a race and you know that everybody in your team delivered their

maximum and they were perfect you were perfect in the car and you won the race and it's really

satisfying and that's where I can relate a little bit to racing drivers because that's

that's one of the best things um worst thing I don't know um uh I mean you know you get sort of

frustrations with race stoppages there was that practice session in las vegas year one where they

had to uh well down all the drain covers and we finally got going at 3 a.m that was a pretty

low point for everybody because we were already we were already you know a great time forever we

were already on on on uk time which was 10 hours it was already you know what we've done all the

podcasts over there we've done the worst times zone difference that's right and so we were

effectively on hawaii or guam time uh from gmt um and that those towers when we were just sitting

waiting for this practice session to start I thought oh this is a pretty low moment but but

then you know youth I think back to it um you know with with sort of fondness I mean COVID was a low

was a low moment for everybody um it was a tough moment you know and leaving Australia going back

and not knowing when we're ever going to get going again and then you could see this you know

so much suffering in all these places that we were going back to and you thought you know we

shouldn't be doing f1 is a is a bit of sports a bit of fun you know it's it's it's right that we

shouldn't be shouldn't be doing it but then going back returning to racing after COVID

in July of that year was a was a very positive moment given a lot of people that had a lot of

different opinions about whether that should be happening or not that occasionally would cause

clashes well I mean Lewis Hamilton and that first um which I write about in chapter 17 I think um

Lewis Hamilton came famously to the Australian Grand Prix and said I don't know what we're doing

here you know so many people in such a space when although there's all this COVID happening

in Europe and in Italy um yeah it's chapter 19 surviving driving is about that and Lewis said

somebody said to Lewis uh why are we here he said well cash is king you know implying that

as long as the financial wheels keep going then it doesn't matter if there's a worldwide pandemic

now he's proved to be absolutely right when the cash flow stopped the stop being racist stopped

happening then money stopped going to the teams because there wasn't any money coming in from

holding the race and the many teams almost folded you know because they just they had to keep paying

their staff they couldn't just lay the staff off all the costs were still going out the door

but they had no money coming in so it was a really tough time for everybody but no that was only

it was only um some people who thought that we shouldn't be there in the first place but Formula

1 reacted very quickly and um we shut down like everybody else so that was a tough time

do you work to live or live to work do you think you'll be doing this as long as you possibly

can because you love it um I don't I mean it's easy to get caught up in you know in the in the F1

bubble and lose and lose perspective so so I don't live to work um I I think it's dangerous in

Formula 1 you can become uh obsessed with being in the in the paddock you can't have a life outside

it you can't feel that you're happy outside it there are people who get um uh who sort of go

native in in a sense of of just of wanting to could could could could never leave the circus

you know they join the circus they just need to be part of the circus and maybe I was like that in

in my you know earlier in my younger days laser focus to recognize that and have perspective

then and just just see it in your own note I think it helps being a broadcaster in that you're not

winning or losing as a team you're not with a group of 60 65 men and women who are going out

and and fighting for for for race wins and championships and getting that that joy when

you win and that and that despair when you don't um because to us in TV that's what does it we don't

mind we don't mind yeah it makes no difference to me whether who wins or loses that's actually

really profound because we speak about this as youtubers this is like a different perspective

right but a lot of the content goes out on youtube and uh on youtube we have this thing

although I've put my phone in airplane oh there we go this is a great reference and every video you

put out it gets ranked as a as a place of your last 10 so obviously one is really good in fact

look who's number one look who's at the top there you're in Chandak so you get ranked between one

and ten and that is in a youtuber sense the same as a team when they're losing races and it can really

especially if you're uploading a lot and working really hard for something to have a huge impact

on the all I kind of emotional swings but it's really interesting dear like what you do is almost

in that sweet spot of you're just kind of an observer yeah and that's actually probably a

way of living a lot kind of much happier and yes intense life yeah I hope that explains why

you seem to have sort of concluded that I was a bit of an emotional flatline and

calm is what you say but um but yes within in that we genuinely and people think you know oh you

know you have your favorites you you you don't want this person to win or you're sad when that

person wins or you're happy when that person wins can you imagine how emotionally draining that would

be if you were constantly battling your own sort of personal feelings about about people winning

of 24 races and all of these going to Austin next we've got sprint races and we're you know

I would I would barely be able to do the job like I can do if I then had to factor in well try

to be a Ferrari fan yeah whether I'm whether I'm personally you know gutted about about a result

I said to my friend at the weekend I said being a Ferrari fan these days is the equivalent of

supporting Manchester United it seems like nothing but disappointment we'll turn it around at

some point around yeah good old Ferrari I mean there's now they're magic they're a magic team

and uh that's why you know I'm happy to that there's a Ferrari on the cover of my book because

there's nothing like them you know you still think I mean McLaren are celebrating 10 world

championships aren't they this this this week having come back from from Singapore uh second

only to Ferrari with 16 I mean you know they've still got another six constructors championships

to win until they're still on even on Ferrari's level so yeah I mean that I know what you mean

you talk about magic there and I just bring it back to my own personal I'm very lucky that I've

got to own quite a few crazy cars over my life and at the minute I have got on McLaren and

just seeing them win the constructors championship at the weekend it's amazing what Formula One

does do for like the true petrol head as well behind the wheel because you do now I look at that badge

and that badge pings back something into my eyes it's different to what it did

pre them win in this championship and I know they've got the heritage I know the history but

you get a sense of the guys that worked on this the current guys that worked on this were champions

were winners and and it does make quite a big difference I think to Formula One not just in

that perspective but in perspective of absolutely everybody that watches you through the lens of

the camera all reads the lines in your book interesting so Ted I'd like to conclude by

telling the audience that I will leave a link to the in the description feel but very nice

well thank you to several places that is available is it available to purchase yeah it is yes it's

on Amazon as part of their deals are doing it for half price at the moment so if you want a

reasonable gift for Christmas it's half price on Amazon at the moment if you want to support your

local bookstores then of course that's your choice and you can buy it for for the price it is but

it's it would be make a a suitable Christmas present if anybody you know who's interested in

F1 I hope people like it I mean it took it took a while to to write I put a lot of heart and soul

into it they haven't shied away I think with Abu Dhabi chapter as an example from anything

you know in noteworthy or controversial what's your favorite sentence in that book

that's probably the last one actually which is the point of being of calling it F1 insider

because was there nearly a point to call it Ted's notebook yeah but that's a tv program now so

there's kind of no point to calling it a book calling a book Ted's notebook but the the idea

about F1 insider is that everything I do is to make my viewers feel like F1 insiders so that's

the kind of play on and I only talked about it at the end so the last sentences I'll do my utmost

to bring the pit lane into your front room connect you with the drivers take you behind the scenes

and deliver as much access news gossip information and entertainment from the paddock as possible

come to think of it everything you need to be an F1 insider so that's the idea is that is that it's

that the play on the play of the title is actually that I'm making everybody

that watches and reads feel like an F1 insider and if I at least I can do that to whatever degree

then I'll be very happy well Ted thank you for giving some insider insight to the F1 insider today

in the back of my van in the middle of London I've never done a podcast in the middle of London

with the back doors in my van wide open in the cover up and so the first podcast I ever did

in the middle of London was actually with Gunther Steiner okay so there's been a few now here but

none quite like this thank you so much for joining me thank you back in my van studio

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